West Virginia local trial court judicial elections, 2016
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West Virginia held general elections for 277 county judicial offices on May 10, 2016. This date coincided with partisan primaries for statewide and federal offices. The 2016 election was the first nonpartisan election for the state's judicial seats since statehood in 1863. Learn more about this change here. Candidates interested in filing for the election submitted paperwork by January 30, 2016.[1]
Incumbents ran for re-election in 79.7 percent of the county judicial seats up for election in 2016. Unopposed seats represented 55.5 percent of county judicial seats on the general election ballot. Incumbents in contested races had a 74.2 percent success rate in 2016. Click here to learn more about term lengths and other requirements for county court seats in West Virginia.
Elections[edit]
Contested seats[edit]
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Poll opening and closing times |
Circuit Court[edit]
Judicial Circuit 2[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Jeff Cramer (i)
- ☐ John Artimez
Judicial Circuit 4[edit]
Division 3[edit]
Judicial Circuit 5[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Division 3[edit]
Judicial Circuit 6[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Alfred Ferguson (i)
- ☐ Scott Andrews
Division 2[edit]
Judicial Circuit 7[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Douglas Witten (i)
- ☑ Joshua Butcher
Judicial Circuit 9[edit]
Division 3[edit]
Judicial Circuit 10[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Robert Burnside (i)
- ☐ Michael Froble
Division 4[edit]
- ☐ James Brown
- ☑ Andrew Dimlich
- ☐ Cindy Kiblinger Fernald
- ☐ Christopher Lefler
- ☐ M.J. Ahmed
- ☐ John Parkulo
- ☐ Darl Poling
- ☐ Stanley Selden
- ☐ Clyde Smith Jr.
- ☐ Russell Wooton
Judicial Circuit 11[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Robert Richardson (i)
- ☐ Britt Ludwig
- ☐ Steve Hunter
Division 2[edit]
Judicial Circuit 14[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Jack Alsop (i)
- ☐ Hiram Lewis IV
Judicial Circuit 15[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Robert Greer
- ☐ Kevin Keeley Griffith
- ☐ Ryan Kennedy
- ☐ Thomas Kupec
- ☑ Chris McCarthy
- ☐ D. Andrew McMunn
Judicial Circuit 17[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Susan Tucker (i)
- ☐ Tim Linkous
- ☐ Gail Voorhees Lipscomb
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Phil Gaujot (i)
- ☐ Cindy Scott
- ☐ Debra Scudiere
Judicial Circuit 18[edit]
- ☑ Lawrance Miller (i)
- ☐ William Means
Judicial District 21[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ James Courrier Jr. (i)
- ☐ Jason Sites
Judicial Circuit 22[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Judicial Circuit 23[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Division 6[edit]
Judicial Circuit 26[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Judicial Circuit 28[edit]
- ☐ Gary Johnson (i)
- ☑ Steve Callaghan
Judicial Circuit 30[edit]
- ☑ Miki Thompson (i)
- ☐ Robert Carlton
- ☐ Teresa McCune
Judicial Circuit 31[edit]
- ☑ Robert Irons (i)
- ☐ Kent Hellems
Family Court[edit]
Circuit 1[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ William Sinclair (i)
- ☐ Michael Safcsak
- ☐ Wayne Mielke
Circuit 3[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Circuit 6[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Ronald Anderson (i)
- ☑ Jason Spears
Division 3[edit]
Circuit 8[edit]
- ☑ Sabrina Deskins (i)
- ☐ Tonya Hatfield
Circuit 9[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Christopher Workman (i)
- ☐ Donna Pratt
Circuit 10[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Cynthia Jarrell (i)
- ☑ Bobby Hale
Circuit 11[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Rob Montgomery (i)
- ☐ Patrick Cottrell
Division 5[edit]
- ☐ Sharon Mullens (i)
- ☑ Jim Douglas
Circuit 13[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☐ Bruce Lazenby (i)
- ☑ Eric Shuck
Circuit 15[edit]
- ☑ David Sanders (i)
- ☐ Martha Fleshman
Circuit 16[edit]
Circuit 17[edit]
Circuit 18[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Circuit 19[edit]
- ☐ Amy Swisher (i)
- ☑ Susan Riffle
Circuit 21[edit]
Circuit 22[edit]
- ☐ Michele Good (i)
- ☑ Lori Haynes
Circuit 24[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Sally Jackson (i)
- ☐ Tia Coode
- ☐ Christine Glover
Magistrate Court[edit]
Barbour County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Kathi McBee (i)
- ☐ Mark Ryan
Division 2[edit]
Berkeley County[edit]
Division 3[edit]
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Robert Lowe II (i)
- ☐ Kenneth Mattson
Boone County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Porter Snodgrass (i)
- ☑ Neil Byrnside
Division 2[edit]
- ☐ Sam Burns (i)
- ☑ Danny Moore Jr.
Braxton County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Brooke County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☐ Linda J.R. Viderman (i)
- ☑ Daniell Diserio
Cabell County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ John McCallister (i)
- ☐ Cass McMillian
- ☐ Sarah Spurlock
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Danne Vance (i)
- ☐ Timothy Fox
- ☐ Linda Hensley
- ☐ Bill Toney Jr.
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Rondall Baumgardner (i)
- ☐ Johnny Ray Rice
Division 5[edit]
Division 6[edit]
- ☑ Darrell Black (i)
- ☐ Joe Jefferson
- ☐ Opal Sanders
Calhoun County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Lora Davis (i)
- ☐ Jim Hughes
- ☐ Ryan Underwood
Fayette County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Leonard Bickford (i)
- ☐ Joe Crist
- ☐ Sara Hypes-Hambrick
- ☐ Aaron Shrewsbury
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Samuel Parsons (i)
- ☐ Randy Prince
Gilmer County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Alton Skinner II (i)
- ☐ Clarissa Ferrell
- ☐ Pam Cutlip
Grant County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Greenbrier County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Hampshire County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Hancock County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Michael Powell (i)
- ☐ David Robinson
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Mike White (i)
- ☐ Stu Mynes
Hardy County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Harrison County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Tammy Marple (i)
- ☐ Michale Weiss
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Keith Marple (i)
- ☐ Salvatore Bombarderie
- ☐ Josh Owens
Division 5[edit]
- ☑ Mark Gorby (i)
- ☐ Garth Beck
- ☐ Joseph Carbacio
- ☐ David Robinson
Jefferson County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Gail Boober (i)
- ☐ Ginny Harrison
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ William Senseney (i)
- ☐ Ron Rossi
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Mary Rissler (i)
- ☐ Arthur Cridler
Kanawha County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☐ Ward Harshbarger III (i)
- ☐ Cecilia Thomas
- ☑ Rusty Casto
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Brent Hall (i)
- ☐ Marva Lee Crouch
- ☐ Kathy Ferguson
Division 5[edit]
- ☑ Michael Sisson (i)
- ☐ Pam Nixon
Division 7[edit]
- ☑ Julie Yeager (i)
- ☐ Melanie Rucker
Division 8[edit]
- ☑ Kim Aaron (i)
- ☐ Todd Chevalier
Division 9[edit]
- ☑ Tim Halloran (i)
- ☐ Dianna Graves
- ☐ Margaret Chico-Eddy
- ☐ Steve Harper
- ☐ Paris Workman
Lewis County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Roger Clem Jr. (i)
- ☐ Ed Browning
Lincoln County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Kay Adkins
- ☑ Kim Clayton
- ☐ Tina Humphries
- ☐ Jamie Messr
- ☐ Lisa Ramey
- ☐ Roger Smith
Logan County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Steven Gray (i)
- ☑ Joe Mendez
- ☐ Estel Murray
Mason County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Cheryl Miller-Ross (i)
- ☐ John Machir
McDowell County[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Danny Mitchell (i)
- ☐ John Andy Vance
Mercer County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Susan Honaker (i)
- ☐ John Howell
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Sandra Dorsey (i)
- ☐ Rick Akers
- ☐ Keith Compton
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Charles Poe (i)
- ☐ Michael Burnopp
- ☐ Max Morris
- ☐ Helen Phillips
- ☐ Pam Sizemore-Plumley
Division 5[edit]
Mineral County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Mingo County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Brock Mounts (i)
- ☑ Donald Sansom
- ☐ Billy Sexton
Division 2[edit]
- ☐ Barry Marcum (i)
- ☐ James Fugett
- ☑ Dave Justice
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Jim Harvey (i)
- ☐ Scott Smith
- ☐ Donald Roy Stevens
- ☐ Michele Webb
Monongalia County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Hershel Mullins (i)
- ☐ Mark Myers
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Jim Nabors (i)
- ☐ Jeffrey Haught
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Sandy Holepit (i)
- ☐ Thomas Yank Ballock
Monroe County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Morgan County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ Greg Miller (i)
- ☑ Debra Ditto
Nicholas County[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☐ Beth Boso
- ☑ Mike Hanks
Ohio County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Charles Murphy (i)
- ☐ Justin Hershberger
- ☐ Desiree Lyonette
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Patricia Murphy (i)
- ☐ Mark Garrett
Pendleton County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Andrew Hinkle (i)
- ☐ Stephen Heavner
Pocahontas County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Carrie Wilfong (i)
- ☐ Tanner Graham
- ☐ Randall Irvine
- ☐ Donna Meadows Price
- ☐ Robert Sharp
Preston County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Lewis Ault (i)
- ☐ Rhonda Sypolt
Division 2[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Harold E. Jenkins, Jr. (i)
- ☐ John Bartlett
Putnam County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Raleigh County[edit]
Division 5[edit]
Randolph County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Robert Elbon Jr. (i)
- ☐ Chris Heflin
Roane County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Jason Bennett (i)
- ☐ John Caldwell Jr.
Taylor County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Tyler County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Upshur County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☐ Juanita Adams (i)
- ☑ Kay Hurst
Wayne County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ David Ferguson (i)
- ☐ Tina Turner Sarver
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Randy Wiles (i)
- ☐ Ethan Peake
Division 3[edit]
- ☐ John Cavins (i)
- ☐ Andy Battista
- ☐ Todd Mays
- ☑ Billy Dell Runyon
Webster County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☐ John Stone (i)
- ☑ Ryan Bruffy
- ☐ Daniel Lehman
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Richard Robertson (i)
- ☐ Victor McClure
Wetzel County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Judith Goontz (i)
- ☐ Lisa Kocher Yoho
- ☐ Billie Zimmerman
Wirt County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Janey Wigal (i)
- ☐ Reginald Grimmett
- ☐ Craig Mills
Wood County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Joe Kuhl (i)
- ☐ Jeremy Bungard
- ☐ Barry Murphy
Wyoming County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ James Boles (i)
- ☐ Jeff Dunigon
- ☐ Gerald Jackson
Division 3[edit]
- ☐ I. Kay Fulford (i)
- ☑ Jeff Barlow
- ☐ Ray Toler
Uncontested seats[edit]
Circuit Court[edit]
Judicial Circuit 1[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Ronald Wilson (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ David Sims (i)
Division 3[edit]
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ James Mazzone (i)
Judicial Circuit 2[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ David Hummel Jr. (i)
Judicial Circuit 3[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Timothy Sweeney (i)
Judicial Circuit 4[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ J.D. Beane (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Robert Waters (i)
Judicial Circuit 5[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Judicial Circuit 6[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Chris Chiles (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Paul Farrell Sr. (i)
Judicial Circuit 7[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Eric O'Briant (i)
Judicial Circuit 8[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Booker Stephens (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Rudolph Murensky II (i)
Judicial Circuit 9[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Derek Swope (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ William J. Sadler (i)
Judicial Circuit 10[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ John Hutchison (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ H. L. Kirkpatrick, III (i)
Judicial Circuit 12[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Paul Blake Jr. (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ John Hatcher Jr. (i)
Judicial Circuit 13[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Carrie Webster (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Joanna Tabit (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Tod Kaufman (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ James Stucky (i)
Division 5[edit]
- ☑ Louis Bloom (i)
Division 6[edit]
- ☑ Jennifer Bailey (i)
Division 7[edit]
- ☑ Charles King (i)
Judicial Circuit 14[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Richard Facemire (i)
Judicial Circuit 15[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Thomas Bedell (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ James Matish (i)
Judicial Circuit 16[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Patrick Wilson (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ David Janes (i)
Judicial Circuit 17[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Russell Clawges Jr. (i)
Judicial Circuit 20[edit]
- ☑ David Wilmoth (i)
Judicial Circuit 21[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Lynn Nelson (i)
Judicial Circuit 22[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ H. Charles Carl III (i)
Judicial Circuit 23[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ John Yoder (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Christopher Wilkes (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Gray Silver III (i)
Division 5[edit]
- ☑ Michael Douglas Lorensen (i)
Judicial Circuit 24[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Darrell Pratt (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ James Young Jr. (i)
Judicial Circuit 25[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ William Stewart Thompson (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Jay Hoke (i)
Judicial Circuit 26[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Jacob Reger (i)
Judicial Circuit 27[edit]
- ☑ Warren McGraw (i)
Judicial Circuit 29[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Phillip Stowers (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Joseph Reeder (i)
Family Court[edit]
Circuit 1[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Joyce Chernenko (i)
Circuit 2[edit]
- ☑ Robert Hicks (i)
Circuit 3[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ C. Darren Tallman (i)
Circuit 4[edit]
Circuit 5[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Connie Thomas (i)
Division 2[edit]
Circuit 6[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Patricia Keller (i)
Circuit 7[edit]
Circuit 9[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Kelly Codispoti (i)
Circuit 10[edit]
Division 2[edit]
Circuit 11[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Kenneth Ballard (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ R. Joseph Zak (i)
Division 4[edit]
Circuit 12[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Anthony Bisaha (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Mary Ellen Griffith (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Lisa Clark (i)
Circuit 13[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ H. Suzanne McGraw (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Louise Staton (i)
Circuit 14[edit]
- ☑ Matthew Dean England (i)
Circuit 18[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Lori Jackson (i)
Circuit 20[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Randal Minor (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Patricia Hill (i)
Circuit 23[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Glen Stotler (i)
Division 2[edit]
Circuit 24[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ David Camilletti (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ David Greenberg (i)
Circuit 25[edit]
- ☑ Amanda See (i)
Circuit 26[edit]
- ☑ Richard Witt (i)
Circuit 27[edit]
Magistrate Court[edit]
Berkeley County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Charles Cole (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Harry Snow (i)
Division 5[edit]
- ☑ Betty Jo Hersh (i)
Braxton County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Mary Beth Smith (i)
Brooke County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Robin Snyder (i)
Cabell County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Michael Woelfel (i)
Division 7[edit]
- ☑ Dan Goheen (i)
Calhoun County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Richard Postalwait (i)
Clay County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Jeffery Boggs (i)
Division 2[edit]
Doddridge County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Jamie Lou Moran (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Olivia Adams (i)
Fayette County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Danita Young (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Sharon McGraw (i)
Gilmer County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Carol Wolfe (i)
Grant County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Willard Earle II (i)
Greenbrier County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Charles Beard (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Brenda Smith (i)
Hampshire County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Ron DiCiolla (i)
Hancock County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ William Scott Hicks (i)
Hardy County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Craig Hose (i)
Harrison County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Frank Demarco (i)
Division 3[edit]
Jackson County[edit]
- ☑ Jackie Casto (i)
- ☑ Tom Reynolds (i)
Kanawha County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Pete Lopez (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Jack Pauley (i)
Division 6[edit]
- ☑ Joe Shelton (i)
Division 10[edit]
- ☑ Traci Carper-Strickland (i)
Lewis County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Michael Gissy (i)
Lincoln County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Sophia Tully (i)
Logan County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Dwight Williamson (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Leonard Codispoti (i)
Marion County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Hank Middlemas (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Melissa Pride-Linger (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Mark Hayes (i)
Marshall County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Mark Kerwood (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Tom Wood
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ David McLaughlin (i)
Mason County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Gail Roush (i)
McDowell County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Steve Cox (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Richard VanDyke (i)
Mercer County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Michael Flanigan (i)
Monongalia County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Darris John Summers (i)
Monroe County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Kevin Miller (i)
Morgan County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Kermit Matthew Ambrose (i)
Nicholas County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ D. Wayne Plummer (i)
Division 2[edit]
Ohio County[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Harry Radcliffe (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Joe Roxby (i)
Pendleton County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Kevin Puffenberger (i)
Pleasants County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Randy Nutter (i)
Pocahontas County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Cynthia Broce-Kelley (i)
Putnam County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Linda Hunt (i)
Division 2 (Unexpired term)[edit]
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Kylene Brown (i)
Raleigh County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Charles Humphrey (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Steve Massie (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Richard Jones (i)
Division 4[edit]
- ☑ Greg Tanner (i)
Randolph County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Mike Riggleman (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Benjamin Shepler (i)
Ritchie County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ David Haugh (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Teresa Harper (i)
Roane County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Ronald White (i)
Summers County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ J.W. Jeffries Jr. (i)
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Jack Hellems (i)
Taylor County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Ricky Reese (i)
Tucker County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Riley Barb (i)
Division 2[edit]
Tyler County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Michael Griffin (i)
Upshur County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Mike Coffman (i)
Wetzel County[edit]
Division 1[edit]
- ☑ Thomas Shepherd (i)
Wirt County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ David Roberts (i)
Wood County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Brenda Marshall (i)
Division 3[edit]
- ☑ Robin Waters (i)
Wyoming County[edit]
Division 2[edit]
- ☑ Craig Cook (i)
Election rules[edit]
- See also: Nonpartisan election of judges
Circuit Courts[edit]
The judges of the West Virginia Circuit Court are chosen by the people in nonpartisan elections and must run for re-election when their terms expire. Each judge is elected to an eight-year term.[2]
Selection of the chief judge[edit]
The chief judge of each circuit court is also selected by peer vote, but term lengths vary by circuit.[2]
Qualifications[edit]
To serve on a West Virginia Circuit Court, a judge must be:
- a citizen of West Virginia for at least five years;
- a resident of his or her circuit;
- at least 30 years old; and
- practiced in law for at least five years.[2]
Family Courts[edit]
Judges of the West Virginia Family Courts are each elected to six-year and eight-year terms. Their initial term is six years and every subsequent term is eight years.[3] The elections for this court are nonpartisan contested elections. To serve on this court, a judge must be a state citizen, a circuit resident, a minimum of 30 years of age and have five years of law practice in the state.[4]
Magistrate Courts[edit]
Judges of the West Virginia Magistrate Courts are each elected to four-year terms.[5] The elections for this court are nonpartisan contested elections. To serve on this court, a judge must be a county resident, a minimum of 21 years of age and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Judges of these courts do not need to be lawyers, but they must complete a course in rudimentary principles of law and procedure.[4]
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Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Search," accessed January 31, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: West Virginia," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ West Virginia Judiciary, "Family Courts," accessed September 25, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: West Virginia; Limited Jurisdiction Courts," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ West Virginia Judiciary, "Magistrate Courts," accessed September 25, 2014
West Virginia courts
Federal courts:
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of West Virginia, Southern District of West Virginia • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of West Virginia, Southern District of West Virginia
State courts:
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia • West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals • West Virginia Circuit Courts • West Virginia Family Courts • West Virginia Magistrate Courts
State resources:
Courts in West Virginia • West Virginia judicial elections • Judicial selection in West Virginia
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